Machine for making match-boxes.



PATENTED JUNE 5, 1906.

V Y J. W. DENMEAD. MACHINE FOR MAKING MATCH BOXES.

APPLIUATION FILED SBPT.23.1904.

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J. W. DENMFAD. MACHINE FOR MAKING MATCH BOXES.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.23,1904.

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' MACHINE FOR MAKING MATCH BOXES.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 23.1904.

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APPLICATION FILED SBPT.23.1904.

PATENTED JUNE 5, 1906.

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WITNESSES. IN'VENTOH To all whom it may concern/.

" UNITE srA rps PATENT *orrrcn.

JOHN W. 'DENMEAD, OF AKRON, OHIO, ASSIGNOB, TO THE DIAMOND MATCH COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

MACHINE FOR MAKING MATCH-Boxes.

Be it known that 1, JOHN W. DENMEAD, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of Ohio, have-invente matically'formed and a frictional or striking surface applied thereto, having reference more particular y to that class of *machines in which the shucks or slides are formed about a illustrate the improvement.

suitable bar or mandrel and advanced therealong to appropriate mechanism for applying, and affixing sand or other itty substance to l,

i priate intervening devices.

the edge or edges of each s uck or slide.

The present invention comprehends means for efficiently presenting the edge or edges of the shuck to the surface-applying mechanism and includes, among otherfeatures of construction-and combinations of devices ,a novel formation of mandrel on which the traveling 1 shuck is automatically positioned, as will :be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of a machine embod ing the referred form of my invention, on y so much of the shuck-making mechanism being shown as is necessary to Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the machine. Fig, 3 is a horizontal section of the surface-applying end of the machine, taken on a plane immediately above the mandrel. Fig. 4 is a sectional side elevation of the same end of the. machine. Fi 5 is an elevation of the gearing on one si e of the surfaceapplying mechanism.

4 porting frame.

Fig. 6 is a transverse section through a ortion of the shuck-making mechanism, ilustrating devices for forming the shuck on the mandrel. v I

A represents the shuck-making mechan ism, and B the surface-applying mechanism, the whole being mounted upon a suitable su Extending from one mec'lianism to the other and constituting, in effect,

an element of each'isla mandrel C, around- WhlGll the paper-stock is folded to form a shuck, and along which mandrel such shuck .is fed to the surface-applying mechanism and thence discharged from the mandrel' This Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed ScptemberZS. 1904- Berial Ifo. 225,600.

Patented June 5, 1906.

mandrel is'ofinovel construction, as will heremafter appear The mechanism herein illustrated for form ing the shuck about the mandrel need not be specifically described, as the same is fully set out in a. ending a plication for Letters Patent of t e Unite States, Serial No. 3,360, filed January 30, 1900. Briefl explained,

the stripf stock to be converte into shucks is passed from a reel 1 to the mandrel by way of a suitable guide or trough 2, glue being a plied along one edge of the strip to unite t e edges thereof when they have been overlapped The strip is fed to the upon the mandrel. mandrel by a pair of coacting rolls 3, to which intermittentmotion is imparted from the main shaft 4 of the machine through appro- Beneath the mandrel is a vertically-reciprocating head 5, which is actuated through its connection, by means of a stud or roller 6, with a cam-groove 7 in the face of a disk 8, fast on the main shaft. The upper end of the head isslotted to embrace the mandrel when the head is at the limit of its upper stroke, and such end on the respective sides of the slot is provided with horizontally-movable plates9 10, which constitute folders. The inner ends of these folders are normally projected into the slot by means of suitable springs 11. On

the head are flanges 12, which, being in line 1 with the trough 2 when the head ,is in its down position, serve to guide the paper-stock over and upon the folders. At the'side of the head is a knife 13, by which on the ascent of the head the portion of stock to form the shuck is out off. .Thereupon such portion by the continued ascent of the head impinges against and is folded upon the bottom and two sides of the mandrel. The two folders contacting with the sides of the blank on the mandrel are forced outward thereby; yet at the same time applying yielding pressure to the sides of the blank and main 'aining them a ainst the mandrel. These sides project above the top of the mandrel, and the projectin portions are next folded one upon the other y the inward movement in succession of the two folders. moved through the instrumentality of a slide 14, which enga es the outer end of such folder; This s i e isanounted in a horizontal The folder 9 is first '27 on the main shaft.

guide and is pivotally connected with one arm of a lever 16, the other arm of which extendsinto the path of an appropriate cam 17 .011 the periphery of the disk 8.- The folder 9 is moved sufficiently to fold the opposed edge of the blank down upon the mandrel; but the succeeding action of the folder 10 upon its opposed edge of the blank issuch as only partially to fold such edge upon the underlying flap.

A presser-lever 18, which is fulcrumed on a bracket on the main frame, next acts upon the partially-folded flap to press it securely down upon the underlying flap. The upper armof this lever carries a shoe 19 to engage the flap, while the other arm depends into the path of a cam 20 on the disk. Such upper arm is provided with a dependin finger 21 which by the movement of the ever is swung into or out of an orifice 22 in the folder 9, the finger when moved into the orifice retracting said folder sufficiently to remove itsinner end from beneath the partially-turned flap when the latter is pressed down 'by the lever.

A horizontal bar 23 is mounted in the head 5 directly below the folder 9, the inner erid of which bar is maintained yieldingly against the blank close to the top of the mandrel by meansof a suitably-disposed spring 24, thereby holdin the blank in place during the withdrawa of the folder 9. After its formation upon the mandrel, as above described, the shuck is moved along the same toward the surface applying mechanism by means of a slide 25, which is carried by a head 26, fitted upon the mandrel. This slide is connected with and reciprocated by a cam The slide advances the 'shuck a sufficient distance along the mandrel to permit the formation of a new shuck-upon-the latter, and this new shuck being similarly advanced b y the slide pushes the leading shuck farther along, and so on as each-shuckis formed and fed along the mandrel it pushes onward the previously-formed shucks.

Itwill be understood, of course, that the form in cross-section of the mandrel is the same as that of the shuck to be produced. inasmuch as the folded glued portions of the shuck are alon one of the edges of the shuck and as such f0 ding is effected upon the top of the mandrel, I have given to the body of the mandrel at a point beyond that where the shuck is formed thereon a longitudinal twist c of such pitch as gradually to turn the shucks a quarter-turn as they are progressively moved along the mandrel, and thereby to dispose the edgeslof the shuck in vertical Thence the shucks are fed along the mandrel to mechanism for applying the surfacing substance, in the form of a paint, to the vertically-disposed edges of the shuck.

This mechanism is of the following construction: Supported upon the main frame, directly below the free end of the mandrel, is a receptacle 28, containing a suitable paint or liquid composition, having incorporated therewith sand or other gritty matter. Extending into the receptacle is a pair of disks 29, which are mounted on a shaft 30, having its hearings in a housing 31 on the main frame. These disks, as will be observed, lie beyond the respective lateral edges of the mandrel and extend above the horizontal plane of the latter. One end of the shaft is provided with a gear-wheel 31", which coacts with an idler 32 in mesh with a wheel 33 on a transverse shaft 34 in the framework. The shaft 34 carries a bevel-wheel 35, which gears with a similar wheel 86 on the drivingshaft 4. Thus the power is transmitted fronrthe driving-shaft to the shaft 30, and the disks on the latter are thereby revolved in a manner to dip into the liquid contents of the receptacle and carry upward on their respective faces thinlayers or films of the composition.

interposed between the disks and the respective opposing sides of the mandrel are two horizontally-disposed disks 37, the peripheries of which revolve against the opposing faces of the disks 29, and thereby receive the composition and apply it uniformly to the opposing edges of the shuck.

The composition-applying disks are positively rotated in unison with the disks 29,

and to this end the latter disks are mounted on the lower ends of the vertical shafts 38, having their bearings in brackets 39 on the housing. On the upper ends of these shafts 38 are bevel-whees 40, which coact with. similar wheels 41 on a transverse shaft 42, having its hearings in the housing, the shaft 42 being provided at one end with a spur wheel 43, which gears with and is driven by the wheel 31 on the shaft 30. In order to determine the thickness of the layer of composition applied to the shucks by the disks 37, an adjustable scraper 44 is applied to each of the latter. Each scraper comprises a bar having a bifurcated end portion 44, which embraces the disk. This bar is slidingly fitted to a guide 45 on a crosspiece of the housing, being provided at its outer end with a depending lug through which. passes a setscrew 47, extending from a tapped portion. of the cross-piece. By properly mani ulating this screw the scraper may be move toward or from the disk in a manner to vary the space between the periphery of the disk and the bifurcated portion of the bar, and thereby regulateto a nicety the quantity of material carried by the disk. To insure the positive and uniform feeding of the shucks along the mandrel during the application of the frictional composition thereto, 1 mount within the housing, above and below the mandrel, respectively, two

' tween the wheel 53 and the wheel 31 on the shaft 30. Thus the shafts 48 49 are positively driven, and the motion is transmitted by means of the band from the rearward upper to the forward upper shaft. The latter shaft is geared with the underlyin shaft 49 b the gear-wheels 55, and hence the several shafts are operated concertedly.

When the shuck has been ainted, as

. above described, it is delivered cm the free end of the mandrel onto a revolving table 56, from which it may be removed by an attendant. This table is carried by a vertical shaft 57, which has its bearing at the end of the main frame. On the lower end of the shaft 57 is a worm-wheel 58, with which enages a worm 59 on a transverse shaft 60, the atter being provided atone end with a ulley 61, which is connected, by means of a belt 62, with a pulle 63 on the shaft 34. Thus the table is slow (y rotated, and as the shucks are successively ischarged from the mandrel they ass onto the table at intervals.

I c aim- 1. The combination with a twisted mandrel upon which shucks are formed, of means for feedin the shucks along said mandrel whereby t e said shucks are partially turned during their traverse.

2. The combination with shuck-forming mechanism and surface-applying mechanism, of means for feeding the shucks from the former to the latter mechanism, and means for turning said shucks to present a surface thereof to said latter mechanisrn' 3. The combination with a twisted man- 'drel upon which shucks are formed, of surface-applying mechanism adjacent said manface-applyin drel, and means for feeding the shucks along the mandrel to said mechanism.

4. The combination with shuck-forming mechanism and surface-applying mechanism,

of a twisted mandrel extending from the former to the latter mechanism, and means for feedin the shucks along said mandrel.

5. he combination with shriek-forming mechanism and surface-applying mechanism, including a composition -receptacle, and means for removin the composition therefrom and ap lying it to the vertical ed e or edges of a shuck, of a twisted mandre extending from the shuck-formin to the sur mechanism, an means for feeding the s ucks along said mandrel.

6. The combination with a twisted mandrel upon which shucks are supported and partia y turned, of surface-app anism, and means for bearing upon and advancing said shucks during the application of the surface substance thereto.

7. The combination with a twisted mandrel ufion which shucks are sup orted and partia y turned, of a surface-app ying mechanism, an endless band bearin upon and advancing said shucks during t e application of the surface substance thereto, and means for supporting and actuating said band..

8. e combination with a twisted mandrel u on which shucks are sup orted and partia y turned, of a surface-appfying mechanism, and means for advancing said shucks during the application of the surface substance thereto, said means including an endless band bearin against the upper side of the shuck and roflers bearing against the under side of the shuck, and devices for supporting and actuating said band and rollers. Signed at Barberton, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, this 10th day of September, A. D. 1904.

JOHN W. DENMEAD.

Witnesses:

B. (J. Ross, F. M. Roor. 

